[pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)

[Susan Kline]

There is a certain kind of piano which I find has better stability if I 
very slowly ease up
to the pitch but not beyond, beating pretty vigorously on the note as I go.

If one pulls the pitch over, and then attempts to bang it back down, one 
should go as little
over as possible. The smaller the adjustments, the better the stability 
will be.

Susan

Elwood Doss wrote:
> IF you want to keep your customers, especially those with discriminating hearing, you will be sure to set the strings and pins.  Not only will strings and pins relax and go out of tune while you're tuning but often they will slowly relax and go out of tune after the piano tuner is gone.  Also when the customer is playing the piano the strings can slip out of tune.  Time is important, but that 10 minutes you save could cost you customers.  It is tempting to pull the string up to pitch and leave it, but I would resist the temptation, especially if you want to have a lasting quality outcome.
> Joy!
> Elwood Doss, Jr.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duaine Hechler [mailto:dahechler at att.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 5:36 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)
>
> The one thing that, in my last couple of tunings, I am trying to do is to concentrate on - not - going way sharp before honing in on the unisons. I shaved off about 10 minutes, the last couple of times.
>
> Do most of you come up to pitch or go sharp then come back down?
>
> I learned to go sharp then come back down, except in the high tenor, I seem to here it better coming up to pitch.
>
> Thanks, Duaine
>
> On 01/12/2013 04:41 PM, Mike Kurta wrote:
>   
>>     I had my wife sew two lengths together.  Voila! Now I have only 
>> one mute strip to contend with.  Length is no problem, when I put it away I fold it in half length, half again, and lay it in my case. Easy.
>>     Mike Kurta
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* Ron Nossaman <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>
>>     *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>
>>     *Sent:* Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:45 AM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: 
>> frustrated)
>>
>>     On 1/12/2013 8:06 AM, tunerboy3 at comcast.net <mailto:tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>     > You order it like one solid piece, something like 72" or 84" long or
>>     > so, and cut to desired length or, don't cut it at all.  I ordered 6
>>     > or 10 of them so I could experiment with it.  I wound up cutting one
>>     > of them down the center all the way and using that one in the treble.
>>
>>     I cut a strip diagonally down it's length and get two tapered lengths.
>>     Ideal in verticals to get around the dampers in that last section where
>>     there's no room  - especially in Baldwins. A full width strip works very
>>     well in the bass, or two of them if one leaks too much. Pearl River
>>     passed out a terrific strip at the convention one year. Thin action
>>     cloth sewed to buckskin (or Ecsaine, but it acts like buckskin). Best
>>     tenor strip I've ever used in grands. I've wished I had managed to get a
>>     couple more, but they were pretty protective of them and they wouldn't
>>     be difficult to make when the one I have gives up the ghost.
>>
>>
>>     >  I don't now why but string spacing tends to
>>     > be a little greater in the tenor on verticals than in the treble.
>>
>>     Fan angles, I'd say. I use a narrow strip of thicker action cloth here.
>>     Ron N
>>
>>     
>
>
> --
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> (314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 13 years
>
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